Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-08

CHICAGO, ILL, Aug. THE following
crop summary viii appear il this weeks
! issue of the FIrmer's Review: Our re-
ports indicate Sat the corn crop has ma
! terisliy suffered throughout the west from
! Inc long continued drGuth Local rains
have fallen in many localities since our
! reports reached US, but il is questionable
! whether the damage to he crop can be
| repaired even by general rains. The crop
n many parts Of the weSs is ia 8 most
l2menrabIe condition. Wisconsin, Mich
| igan, Iowa, Missouri, Ohio, Minnesota
| ald DakOta have suffered less than the
other states, The winter whe9s Weld in
! different states according to reports of
! our correspondents, is as follows: Eli
| teen counties in Illinois, IS bu5hels:
| Wisconsin counties, ] % bushels; Mich-
igau counties, II bushels; twelve Indi9ua
counties, | % bushels; ten Ohio CUuu-
! ties, l41 bushels. Lame county, Ky, re-
ports the yield at 30 per cent. Of en- az
eTage; Webster county, 30 per cent, 8ud
the others reporting 10 bushels eleven
Missouri counties, 20 bushels, and eleven
Kansas counties, 10 bushels.
TIE average yield OF oats in the differ
ent states il as follows: Thirteen c0ur-
ties in IllinOis, % bushels; six Wiscon-
SIN counties, y - bushels; eight Mich
can counties, 80 bushels; fourteen u
diana counties, Sc bushels; twelve Ono
/ counties, "a bushels; eleven Missouri
counties, "a So bushels; thirteen Kansas
counties, 81 bushels; sixteen Iowa Coun-
! ties, 81 bushels and Dakota counties re-
| port good yield. Average counties of
crop, Is reported from different states, is
! follows Seventeen counties in Illinois
| report average condition IS 81 per cent.
| Damage by drouth and bugs is general
! throughout the state. DrOUth and ia
/ SeCts have not been severe in Wisconsin
! and the counties reporting piece the aver
| Sge at IS per cent Fourteen counties
in Indiana report average condition a. 81
| per cent. Damage by dr0u.h is general.
Damage by drouth in Michigan is not gen
eral, Counties reporting place the aver
age condition OF crops st So per cent
Bensie county reports no damage by
drOGt1 Gnd an average coalition of ITO
per cent. Eleven Ohio counties give an
average Of 80 per cent. Damsge by drOuth
is general. Nine Missouri counties re
port On average Of 50 per cent, with dam
age from drOuth ia every county report
ing, except Stoddard, where the condition
OF the crop is estimated at 80 per cent. OF
al average crop. In Came and Webster
counties, Kentucky, crop is in tine cOndi-
ton, but other counties reporting show
only 80 per cent. Of tn average crop,
the damage being from drou.h. Thirteen
Kansas counties report the condition Of
The crop at Ga per cent. Drouth in the
counties reporting is general with the
exception OF Cowlcy, where the average
condition IS ITO per cent. The crop in
the GSst half Of Ness county is good, but
ruined by drOuth in the west half. ChiuCh
bugs have also damaged the Kansas corn
crop. Sixteen counties in lows report
the condition Of the corn crop at 9O.5 per
cent. Of an average. No dems2e 10y
drouth or insects is reported by Cerr0
GOTdO, Clark, Jones, KOssutb and Wood
bury counties. Twelve counties in Mime
sofa report en- average Of So per cent,
TIE average re&Ches'Or pass 100 per cent.
IN Kicker, BigStCre, Blue Earth and Si5-
{ ley counties, but from drCuth end insects
, hiss fallen away in average. In counties
reporting eight counties N Nebraska re-
port an average ct 7G per cent. No dam
age By drouth or bugs has been exDe-
rienced in BuTk, Douglass and Howard
counties, bpt has been severe in Othel
counties reporting. The corn crop il
Dakota is good, but some damage is re-
ported from hail ard insects.
Potatoes are suffering from continued
drouth. Pastures are in very bad condi-
ton generally, but less so where Local
rains have fallen. Prospects for crOl
Of apples are very slim.